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Yup, I think lowering the seizure med may work.

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So, I went to the ATM. I was going to do a bunch of shopping and start cooking in batches - shakshouka (Tunisian recipe of eggs poached in a sauce made of tomatoes, sweet red peppers, onions, and garlic with herbs and spices) with beef (new recipe); a standard pork and cabbage stew with potato, carrot, celery and onion; and a cream of chicken mushroom soup made with cauliflower and milk instead of cream and roux (new recipe).

But when I was walking back to my car I saw a big puddle underneath and a brisk drip, drip, drip from the bottom of the car. Thinking it might be gasoline, I put the car in neutral and rolled it off the puddle - and sure enough - it was gas. Sigh. Thank goodness for AAA and their free towing under 7 miles. And I'm OK with fixing it. The car is still super reliable after all these years, and the fix is far cheaper than a new(ish) car.

But not having a car for the next couple of days sure is going to put a dent in my plans.

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I seem to have stalled out a bit. I know I should be making better progress on a couple of important items but I just can't seem to get the get-up-and-go to get it done.

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Been noodling on that frontyard landscape ... visualization is SOOOO not my "thing" when I'm focused on looks, altho I can make perfectly functional landscapes and gardens (yanno, when to use trees for shade, and how to create a flower garden or vegetable garden, where to put walkways and sprinklers etc)

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So in lieu of doing anything important and necessary, I bought a bunch of pollinator-friendly seeds for the old veggie garden. I was going to use that for my veggies instead of the groundcover sage area that I wound up ripping out, but the family was so distraught that I might disturb the nasturtiums that had taken over the old veggie garden during the winter. I tried to tell them that those flowers would poop out by June anyway, but they begged and begged for me to leave them alone. So now the flowers are pooped out and it's too late to put summer veggies in there, and way too early for winter veggies, so dd and I picked out a bunch of flower seeds - borage, sunflower, cosmos, marigold, milkweed (for the monarchs), zinnia etc and we're just going to toss them in and water the garden and cross our fingers.

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Sigh. Still have to get to the important stuff tho.

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I seem to have stalled out a bit. I know I should be making better progress on a couple of important items but I just can't seem to get the get-up-and-go to get it done. And I'd like to do something more with the front yard besides maintenance, but I haven't figured out what, yet, so I'm stuck putting in work w/o seeing progress.

I do have to say that torching and spraying have REALLY cut back on the weeding chores, tho! Been noodling on that frontyard landscape ... visualization is SOOOO not my "thing" when I'm focused on looks, altho I can make perfectly functional landscapes and gardens (yanno, when to use trees for shade, and how to create a flower garden or vegetable garden, where to put walkways and sprinklers etc)

So in lieu of doing anything important and necessary, I bought a bunch of pollinator-friendly seeds for the old veggie garden. I was going to use that for my veggies instead of the groundcover sage area that I wound up ripping out, but the family was so distraught that I might disturb the nasturtiums that had taken over the old veggie garden during the winter. I tried to tell them that those flowers would poop out by June anyway, but they begged and begged for me to leave them alone. So now the flowers are pooped out and it's too late to put summer vegies in there, and way too early for winter veggies, so dd and I picked out a bunch of flower seeds - borage, sunflower, cosmos, marigold, milkweed (for the monarchs), zinnia etc and we're just going to toss them in and water the garden and cross our fingers.

Sigh. Still have to get to the important stuff tho.

Tomorrow is garage fixit day ... we got the rest of the replacement LEDS in, compatible with fluorescent fixtures (bipin 48" tubes) except the ballast which needs to be removed.

I just feel kinda outta steam.

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I hope that lowering your meds might boost your mood a little bit, too. *fingers crossed*

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I'm sure you kow more about this than I do, but clearing the codes just might do the trick. Even a car as old as your has an onboard computer that comes with factory defaults, but the settings adjust to your car performance specifics as you drive.

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I just learned that you are a lot better off with an older car like I've got (assuming you can pass, that is). These old dogs only have to pass the diagnostic once for things like the CAT and EVAP systems, and then they don't get run again until after the battery is pulled or the system is wiped by an OBD. New cars will continuously run things like that and fail you if they go bad in between. I saw a cool video of an app a guy was using on a tablet that he could hook up to his car and show a million more things than my cheapo little Chinese meter does.

I put two drive cycles on the car today and around 100 miles. 3 of the systems showed OK immediately upon starting up (they are the continuous diagnostics). 1 of them completed by the first stop light (I believe the ECG monitor). The biggest one to set today would be the O2 Sensor Monitor, which cleared by the time I hit the expressway. At least I THINK that should mean that my O2 sensors are good.

Still no luck on the CAT monitor, and the EVAP hasn't gone either. I'm kind of glad the EVAP hasn't gone yet. That was kind of the whole purpose of resetting everything since I've read that the EVAP is supposed to happen after the CAT.

Tomorrow I'm throwing some CataClean or at least some STP and just driving my car until it runs out of gas. I'll have a can on me to fill it so I can get to the gas station, and I'll try to run out around the place where I can buy high octane and put in half a tank of that.

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Just keep the windows open when you run the engine, and don't run it indoors anywhere. Given the way it performs, it MAY be producing a lot of carbon monoxide, and you may be suffering from carbon monoxide (not dioxide, MONoxide) poisoning.

Carbon monoxide ties up the hemoglobin in your bloodstream and prevents oxygen from attaching, so you suffer from bodywide lack of oxygen.

Early symptoms include headache, nausea, fatigue, and body aches ... like a flu, but no fever.

https://www.emedicinehealth.com/carbon_monoxide_poisoning/article_em.h
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One of my chemists actually got carbon monoxide poisoning from analyzying a sample with percent-level CO, and he was only using about 50mL (about a half-cup) at a time.

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I think the monitor for my Blair's system is shot. Going to have a look around and see if I can get another one.

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Not only do I have to tell my neighbor thanks for all the years of cleaning out the sewers at the corner of the street, but let him know that in a perfect world the entire 3 block area around us owes him a debt of gratitude.

He lost a lot of his mobility with a back issue during the winter, and even with a shot he's not moving too well. So last night was the 2nd time I cleared out our sewers when they started to back up.

I woke up late this morning because yesterday was a long day and I didn't sleep very well. I look out the kitchen window and what do I see? Somebody bravely driving their coup through water so high I probably wouldn't have chanced it, two kids playing in the water with their parents yelling at them to stop, and the entire street is flooded and up about 15 feet on my property. My first thought was the city sewer was screwed up again!... but then I remembered the chaotic winds and near tornado yesterday and did the math...

A rake, some elbow grease, a pair of soaking shoes, socks and jeans and 45 minutes of my morning and the street is clear.


"If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." ~God, Futureama


But I know now...

And so does the entire family that mysteriously disappeared into their houses as soon as I got to work. Half of the work being on their side of the street.




And to think... I used to get pissed off at that neighbor for dumping 50 lbs of soaking wet helicopters on my grass in front of the sewer. I had no idea how much hassle he saved me over the years.


I guess I'm the reluctant Patriarch of the block now. I don't have any choice since my lawn will be most affected and my car will be pinned in unless those sewers are working.

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Sorry. I inherited my late guy's desktop computer when he died. I've got it all wired up here in my new place but the monitor doesn't want to cooperate, so I am thinking it is dead. I turned it one once in the crap place and the acer screen came up (as it is an acer monitor) then I turned it on once after I moved and it wouldn't read the hard drive. All I got was "no signal". Now, when I tried turning it on this week, nothing happened.

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I got my car back! It was the gas tank.

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Shouldn't have to worry about drivers for a monitor anymore these days, unless we're talking about a system so old it's still using Windows XP or something.

But if the computer doesn't have HDMI output which sounds extremely likely, you'd have to make sure that the new monitor has whatever input needed from the video card, or you'd have to buy a converter for it.



DVI (top) or VGA (bottom) is most likely. I haven't bought a new computer monitor in about 5 years, so I don't know what they typically have these days, but mind has DVI, VGA and HDMI inputs.

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Sorry. I inherited my late guy's desktop computer when he died. I've got it all wired up here in my new place but the monitor doesn't want to cooperate, so I am thinking it is dead. I turned it one once in the crap place and the acer screen came up (as it is an acer monitor) then I turned it on once after I moved and it wouldn't read the hard drive. All I got was "no signal". Now, when I tried turning it on this week, nothing happened.

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Is there a reason you think it's not reading the hard drive?

I'm only asking because it sounds like you're explaining a different problem and I'm not aware what your level of knowledge with computers is and I don't want to assume anything.


It does sound to me like your monitor or video card might be bad, or it could be just a bad cord. If the lights come on and the thing beeps like it's supposed to, chances are that it is booting up properly and getting to the operating system, but you're just not getting the signal to the screen.


First thing I would do is take out the cable from the computer and the monitor and put them back in and try to start it again. If there's no change, see if maybe somebody you know has an extra monitor you could try, or even an old flatscreen TV they don't use anymore (a lot of them have the same inputs needed for your computer these days).

If you can borrow one and it works, then try their monitor/TV using your cord too to see if your cord is bad.

Monitors have really come down in price these days. You could probably look at this as an opportunity to get yourself a larger screen than you were used to before. I thought I was in heaven when I bought my 27" monitor, but when I bought an old 40" flat screen TV from a buddy at the old job for $75 and used them both for a dual monitor setup on my computer, just wow.


Worst case scenario is if the video card is bad. You can get them really cheap in 2020 since you're not looking for any advanced 3D graphics to run the latest games... maybe $30-$35 tops, but you'd have to open the case and install it yourself or know somebody who can do it for you. You'd also have to buy the right kind to fit the slot on your motherboard... That actually got pretty tricky since they kept changing the nature of the slots that housed the video cards on motherboards as flat screen monitors made demand for higher bandwidth grow very fast. Buy the wrong one and it just won't fit.

Not terribly difficult to install after you got the right one, but I know that it can be daunting for somebody who's never done it before to have to open that case up.

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Hey Brenda - just a real quick check for your monitor ... I can see there might be a couple places where it might not turn on at all - no power-on light. One is the power supply from the computer to the monitor. It seems you have an alternate computer that you're posting from. If it's not a laptop, you might try plugging the monitor into that other computer. You might also try changing out the power cord.

The other is that actual power switch itself on the monitor. Switches go bad! sort of. They develop oxidation and general crud on the contacts. You can fix that if you vigorously use the switch; that helps rub the crud off.

Oh, I found a good troubleshooting guide. You sound like you've already been through this, but I thought I'd post it anyway.

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000241.htm

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I passed.


I probably didn't even need to fix my emissions because of where the O2 sensors were located, but now that it's all over with I'm glad that this happened. The car runs so much better now, and that's with my temporary McGyver fix keeping it all together. I've got an appointment with a welding guy to do it all up proper. $50 to $100 depending on how difficult it will be... he didn't want to say for sure over the phone. My cut is clean. It will be easy. Hell... If I had a welding machine I'd do it myself and I've never welded before.


Just an FYI for anybody who ever needs a CAT test to initiate. Here's the steps that I took that I think ended up in a successful diagnostic, in order of importance:

1. FIND THE EXACT DRIVE CYCLE FOR YOUR MAKE, MODEL AND YEAR OF YOUR VEHICLE. Don't listen to what anybody on YouTube says, or even what mechanics say. They don't know. They couldn't possibly know because drive cycles are all over the freaking map.

Also, DON'T try any "tricks" with revving your engine up while in park for a few minutes at a time. This DID NOT WORK at all and I easily put 30 minutes on my car at 3,000RPM while in park, which might destroy a lesser engine than the bulletproof masterpieces the Japanese were putting out back in the 90's.

2. Buy an OBDII scanner. Even a $25 one that tells you basic codes and which tests have and have not completed will be super helpful. If you have the money, spend the extra cash for one with more monitoring features like temperature values on individual sensors (although in the end I didn't need this, and I knew as much once I did the research last night and read up on the service manual).

3. Dump a bunch of SeaFoam and Heet into your gas tank. The Caveat is that you probably don't need to do this if you have a newer car and you use good gasoline. Additives were much more necessary in the old days when there weren't as many government regulations on gas quality and vehicle construction. But if you haven't treated your car right in the past and/or filled up with cheap gasoline, it can't hurt to burn off a bad tank of gas with additives while trying to get the tests to initiate. SeaFoam does a great job cleaning up carbon deposits within the entire system, and Heet will get any water out of your tank from cheap gasoline.

4. Once your just about out of gas, fill it up with 93 Supreme at a place known to have good gasoline. Look online to find where good gasoline is by you.

5. Follow that drive cycle to the best of your ability. Don't worry if you have to stop and start up again in between. Contrary to the verbiage of the documentation that people post online, the actual drive cycle documentation tells you that this is OK to do. Just make sure you accelerate slowly and coast to stops in between and don't do any hard breaking.

That being said, give it quite a bit more time to complete than they tell you in the cycle before stopping and shutting your car off, especially for a trouble monitor like the CAT. You obviously bank some of that driving time at the correct speeds in between starting and stopping, but the documentation doesn't state anywhere how much or exactly how that works. It took me over 3 times as long to get the CAT monitor to read OK than the drive cycle was supposed to be. Had I turned off the car before it cleared I would have had to start from square one.


I actually hope this doesn't help anybody and nobody ever needs to be put through that stress and BS.




Oh... total cost to have 2 more years driving my car: $34 for flex pipe and clamps (the clamps I'll probably return after the weld). $30 for gas. 1 broken heavy metal sawzall blade, and another that I dulled to the point of ineffectiveness.



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It doesn't have a video card as when my IT friend flipped it from Linux (which my Blair loved) back to Windows, he forgot that. I told him not to worry about it as I wanted to wait until I moved before really taking a stab it. NOW, that I have moved and all this flap happened I can't get a hold of him.

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I saw my IT in the local mall and hollered at him but he paid me no mind. So I called him and left a message. Granted I know he is busy and most like behind on stuff because of the lockdown. So, that means I am in a pickle.

I did try to rewiring of the monitor and put on the drive, it light up and beeped. The monitor did nothing when I tried to turn it on. So, I just rewired it the way I had it.

My knowledge is I know basically what the parts are of a hard drive but I don't totally trust myself to take it apart and put it back together.

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The monitor belongs with the desktop. What I use to type to you guys is a laptop.

The power button on the monitor maybe gone. When I press on it, it won't do anything and it used to make sort of a clicking sound when the monitor would turn on. The light on the button would then be blue.

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WOOHOO!!!!
SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!
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It does sound like the monitor BRENDA. Just make sure that you have actual power going to the monitor... there can be three "wires" going to the back of a standard monitor from the desktop, and one is a heavier power cable that has actual power connections on it, like a rwo or three-pronged plug and its inverse. For some reason, our monitor is kinda hinky and the power cable comes loose a little bit, so unplug and plug back in the connector from the PC to the cable and from the cable to the monitor.

Sorry if you've been thru that already, I have't had a chance to read all of the back-and-forth and in a bit of a hurry.

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It doesn't have a video card as when my IT friend flipped it from Linux (which my Blair loved) back to Windows, he forgot that. I told him not to worry about it as I wanted to wait until I moved before really taking a stab it. NOW, that I have moved and all this flap happened I can't get a hold of him.

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It has to have video output. If there isn't a card, it has to be on the Motherboard. That would surprise me though. It sounds like this is a fairly old computer and having an onboard GPU would have been pretty pricey. It's a common thing for Laptops to have the GPU on the board, but desktops almost always use a video card, unless you've got one of those micro-PC units that are pretty tiny, or an all-in-one destop. In all the computers I've built over the years I've never owned a desktop that had on board graphics and always bought a video card for it.

Which plug of the two I posted above (or HDMI) goes into your monitor?

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It is a fairly old computer. Not sure how long he had it before I inherited it and the monitor is second hand as well. A friend brought it to him from his work place as they were getting some new monitors. I'll have to back and look at what you posted to then add it to this reply.

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I saw my IT in the local mall and hollered at him but he paid me no mind. So I called him and left a message. Granted I know he is busy and most like behind on stuff because of the lockdown. So, that means I am in a pickle.

I did try to rewiring of the monitor and put on the drive, it light up and beeped. The monitor did nothing when I tried to turn it on. So, I just rewired it the way I had it.

My knowledge is I know basically what the parts are of a hard drive but I don't totally trust myself to take it apart and put it back together.

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The monitor belongs with the desktop. What I use to type to you guys is a laptop.

The power button on the monitor maybe gone. When I press on it, it won't do anything and it used to make sort of a clicking sound when the monitor would turn on. The light on the button would then be blue.

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Yeah... I can't really help you with that. Maybe try what Kiki suggested? I had two flat screens go bad on me over the years, and one of them sounds like what you're describing. But by the time mine went bad I either already got another hand-me-down from my brother or co-workers or bought a 2nd monitor that was bigger myself so I just threw them to the curb when they gave me trouble.

Good luck!



Oh... and if you do decide to get another monitor, you should ask your friends if they have a spare or go to Goodwill or a thrift shop first. These things have been out long enough now that you can get pretty nice ones that people got rid of because they went bigger and better. Just make sure you can plug it in and see that it at least turns on before you give them the cash.

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I did try the flipping the cord around and I think all it did was mess up my lap top because it is all plugged into a power bar. I will look at some thrift shops if I decide to get one.

ETA: I had another look at the picture you posted and both ends sort of look like the cable I've got.

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Hey Brenda,


I think I see what's going on. You were confusing me with "hard drive".

This is a hard drive in a Desktop Computer:
The hard drive is the part of the computer that stores all of the information the computer needs to run and can also store your music, movies, pictures and any programs you install. They are quite large in desktops compared to the ones found in laptops.

You don't plug anything directly into the hard drive. There are two "outlets" on a hard drive, but one is for power and the other is for the data connection, and they both plug into different parts of your computer's motherboard internally. If you don't ever open your case, you won't ever interact with the hard drive.


What you're talking about is what I just call the "Case". Other names for it are the Chassis, Tower or Cabinet. It's the enclosure that holds and protects all of the electronic parts. The Motherboard, the CPU, the memory, the hard drive, the video/sound card, etc.

When you're plugging the cable from the monitor into the Case, you're plugging it into the video output from the Video Card.

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I did try the flipping the cord around and I think all it did was mess up my lap top because it is all plugged into a power bar. I will look at some thrift shops if I decide to get one.

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It messed up your "lap top"? Just checking here because I thought we were talking about your desktop.

If we are still talking about your desktop computer, unless some random freak occurrence happened because of some faulty wiring in the cable, reversing which side went into your case and the monitor didn't hurt anything. The only time any sort of polarity problems could occur when wiring something to a computer has always been accounted for and before they made newer tech we take for granted today that are completely reversible they would make different sized ends for cables to ensure they weren't put in the wrong way. Your display cables can go either way without any problems.

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My mistake. I shouldn't have posted a picture of adapters and caused more confusion. Here's a picture of the actual cables:



(DVI is on the Left, VGA is on the Right.

DVI is rectangular and one of the prongs is a "line" instead of just pins. VGA is all pins, and is shorter on the bottom than it is on top and the sides are angled).

If you do buy a new monitor, you're going to need to know which one that your computer uses or you will not be able to plug it in. Well, you can, but you'll need to get an adapter (like the ones I posted before). They should be a lot cheaper than they are, but they are one of those products that have an obscene price markup, especially in brick and mortar stores. You'd be able to get it a lot cheaper online, but I know you don't have the ability to order stuff online. So it's better just to figure out which one you have and make sure the monitor you get will support it. Most monitors will probably support both, but I haven't been in the market for a long time and that might not be true anymore. Both VGA and DVI are aging technology now and if manufacturers what to shave production costs to make their monitor cheaper they might opt to cut one or both of them and just go with HDMI since that's becoming the new universal standard for video/audio output.


If you have the ability to do so, you can take a picture of where you plug the monitor cable into your case and just take that with you and make sure the new monitor has the same connector. (Since it's an old computer, I think we can assume that it's either of those two and not an HDMI for BluRay to 4K video output).


Please don't hesitate to ask any questions and I'll be glad to help. I've had a lot of experience walking my mom and my grandma through computer troubleshooting steps over the phone for decades and I've got the patience and the time.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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1KIKI: Dang, it was supposed to be cooler today but the max temp here was 94F (34C).

SIGNY: Well, yesterday it was 98 at our house, so today's 93 seemed cooler!

Did my usual one hour of yardwork. Today it was a combination of things... raking avocado leaves (STILL) in prep for weeding and mulching, taking apart an old Texas tomato cage that that rusted together, binning up weeds, tossing out palm flower stalks (greenwaste won't take them) and raking out the shredded-leaf mulch that we dumped under one of the avocados. Also went grocery shopping and mailed out some bill pays and made a couple of phone calls still trying to fix some bills that Medicare fucked up when they randomly changed their status from primary to secondary insurance. Also tried a very new chicken recipe on hubby who "hates chicken". this was an "oven fried" chicken but the secret to success is to marinade the chicken in milk/paprika/garlic/salt/sugar/bay leave mixture for a few hours, then coat it with an egg/mustard/garlic powder/fresh ground pepper mix, then roll it in a panko/parmesan/olive oil before baking. Also, I have learned over the years that chicken breast is dry and flavorless when overcooked, so I start the wings, thighs, and drumsticks 20 minutes early and bake the chicken breast for the shortest amount of time after that ... maybe 15 minutes. Served with cucumber salad and a tomato/parsley/oinion/s&p/vinegar/olive oil salad. It must have tasted good because family asked for seconds!

But the big cooldown is coming tomorrow ... 80 degrees. WOOHOO!

Just in time to be working in the garage. I love my hubby but this garage fixup is getting kinda ... old. In addition to my yardwork yesterday we replaced the last of the 6 flourescent tubes in the garage and also the 4 fluoresecent tubes in the kitchen with LED tubes plus we had to fix the thermostat in the livingroom because the batteries pooped out and the newer ones didn't quite reach the contacts, which had corroded. Long story.

Tomorrow I edge the lawn and cut down some large elephant ears that just sprang up (I sure didn't plant them!) and rake out the new flower garden. And then we put in the last two upper shelves. Maybe the brackets for the workbench too. And then I say fuckit and lay down and read a stupid woman's magazine!

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